Fish-lure-demonstrating apparatus.



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V FISH LURE DEMONSTRATING APPARATUS.

APPLlCATJON FILED JAN- 10. 191

WILLIAM A. FOSS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

FISH-LURE-DEMONS'I'RATING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2d, 191 31.

Application filed January 10, 1917. Serial No. 141,558.

1 '0 aZZ 7072,0777. it may concern lie it known that I, lViLLrAM A. Foss, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Cleveland, in the county of (Yuyahoga and State of. Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fish-Lu re-Demonstrating Apparatus and l. hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for demonstrating an artificial fishlure, and pertains more especially to apparatus for displaying the action, on a rotary blade and a flexible tail-strip of an artificial minnow, of a rapid. circulation of water or other liquid endwise of a display-passageway in which said minnow or fish-lure is arranged with its tail-strip extending from the body of the fish-lure in the direction of the discharging end of said display-passageway, and I would here remark that said. fislrh'irc has said blade preferably arranged between the body of the fish-lure and the opposite end of said display-passageway and that the action on said tail-strip by the circulation of liquid in said passageway and by vibration of said body and connected tail-strip resulting from the operation of said blade by the rapidly moving liquid is not unlike the action that would be had on said blade and tail-strip were the fish-lure drawn forwardly in a body of still water.

One object of this invention is therefore to provide apparatus whereby circulation or movement of water or liquid endwise through a display-passageway may be had to demonstrate the action of the moving liquid on an artificial fish-lure in said passageway or display, and consequently indicate the operation or action of said fishlure in drawing the fishlure forwardly in a body of water.

Another object is to construct a portable fish-lure-clemnstating apparatus of the character indicated which is simple in construction and reliable in its operation.

Vi ith these objects in view, and to the end of attaining any other object hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of coi'istruction, and combinations and relative arrangement of parts, hereinail'ter described in this specification, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accon i p anying drawings.

in said drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleration, partly in central section, of demonstrating apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the displayq iassageway and adjacent portions of the apparatus and illustrates the action of a circulating liquid on the tailstrip of the artificial minnow within said passageway. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken along the line 33, Fi 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. l is a vertical section taken along the line l l, Fig. 2, looking in the direc tion indicated by the arrow.

Referring to said drawings, A (Fig. 1) indicates the base portions of a portable demonstrating apparatus embodying my invention. Rigid with said base portions is a rotary pump B which is operated in any approved manner, and 6 indicates the cen tral pump-operating shaft which is arranged substantially horizontally and operatively provided, eliternally of the circular interior chamber 5 off the pump with a pinion 6 meshing with a suitably supported gear 7 which is provided with a crank or handle 8 for rotating it. The chamber 5 is shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

Two spaced standards D and E, which are rigid with the base portions A, extend upwardly a suit-able distance. "Within the standard D is formed a passageway (Z which connects with the chamber 5 and forms the inlet of the pump and extends to said chamber from within the upper end of said standard.

lVit-hin the standard E is formed a passageway c which connects with the chamber 5 and forms the outlet of the pump and extends from the chamber 5 into the upper end-portion of said standard.

Extending horizontally between the upper end-portions of the standards D and E is a tube G of glass or other transparent material, which tube is supported from said standards and forms a. displaypassageway which communicates at one end with the passageway (Z in the standard D and at its other end with the passageway c in the standard E. The passageways (Z and c and the display-passageway formed by and interiorly of the tube G are supplied with clear water or other transparent liquid L.

formed'by the tube G and endwise through said tube. or display-passageway, as 1nd1- cated by the arrows in Fig. 2, from the standard E to the standard D and thence through the passageway (Z in the last-mentioned standard, so that during the operation of the pump the liquid moves rapidly endwise of and through the transparent tube or display-passageway from the standard E to the standard D. It will be observed therefore that the tube G is placed in communication at one end with the outlet of the pump and at its other end with the inlet of the pump.

Centrally of the display -passageway formed by the tube G is arranged an artificial fish-lure shown in the form of an artificial minnow which is arranged longitudinally of said passageway and has a body H supported at its forward end-portion from a substantially horizontal rod I which is supported from the standard E and projects into said passageway centrally of the adjacent end-portion of the tube G. The body H is arranged therefore substantially horizontally and longitudinally of the displaypassageway preferably centrally between the ends of said passageway and consequently spaced from the supporting rod 1. As shown, the body H is provided with an axle 12 which is arranged substantially hori- Zontally and longitudinally of the displaypassageway and extends to the rod 1 from the adjacent end of said body and is secured to said rod in any approved manner. Upon said axle is rotatably mounted a blade 13 which faces laterally and in the direction of the standard E, and consequently in the direction of the liquid-receiving end of the display-passageway, so that said blade shall, by liquid impinging against its face during the movement of liquid through said passageway in the direction indicated by the arrows shown in Fig. 2, be rotated on the axle and agitate or stir the moving liquid and vibrate the body H of the fish-lure and the connected flexible tail-strip 1% with which said body is provided. The body H is provided with a fish-hook it which extends from said body in the direction of the discharging end of the display-passageway, and the tail-strip 14: which extends from said body in the direction of said end of said passageway is wiggled or agitated or vibrated by the vibration of the body resulting from the rotation of the blade 13 and by the liquid circulated through the display-passageway.

The tail-strip 14: droops, as shown in Fig.

inverted-U-shaped 1, when the pump is inactive, but during the operation of the pump and consequent circulation of liquid through the display-passageway from the standard E to the standard D said strip is elevated at its rear end, as shown in Fig. 2, and waved or vibrated and is active in a manner and to the same extent as the life or activity displayed by a corresponding tail-strip of an artificial minnow drawn forwardly in a body of still water.

The joints between the tube G and the standards D and E are rendered fluid-tight in any approved manner. Preferably the standards D and E embrace opposite ends respectively of the tube G, and said tube is pressed endwise at the standard D against a washer 16 interposed between an annular shoulder 17 formed on said standard and the adjacent end of said tube. The means employed for holding the tube G tightly at one end against the washer 16 comprises an externally screw-threaded ring 18 screwed into the standard E at the opposite end of said standard, and a washer 19 is interposed between said ring and the last-mentioned end of said tube. The standard E is provided, opposite the outer end of and in line endwise with the ring 18, with a screwthreaded aperture 20 which is larger diametrically than the ring 18 and the tube G to permit the introduction of said tube and said ring endwise into place through said aperture in the assemblage of the parts, and said aperture is closed by a correspondingly externally screw-threaded head K which is screwed at said aperture into said standard. Preferably the rod I or support for the fishlure (see Fig. 2) is carried by the head K which is shown provided centrally with a screwthreaded hole 21, and said rod is shown externally screw-threaded at its outer end and screwed at said hole into said head. The head K is provided externally of the standard E with a circumferential flange and a washer m is interposed between said flange and said standard. By the construction hereinbefore described it will be observed that the fish-lure is supported from the standard E having the passageway forming the outlet of the pump and discharging into the liquid-receiving end of the tube G.

Preferably one of the standards is provided at its top (see Fig. 2) with an aperture 23 at which the water or for circulation through the tube G is supplied, which aperture is shown closed by a removable plug 24.

The two standards are preferably composed of a single casting and connected together at their upper ends by a substantially web 25 which is arranged above and spaced from the tube G and forms a handle for convenience in carrying the apparatus.

liquid required Till Bythe construction" hereinb'etore described it will be observed that the fish-lure is arranged on displayuvithin a transparent tube and supportedfrom one ot' the standardsemployed' in supporting said tube, and thatas said tube forms'the surrounding wall of" the -liquid-conducting passageway in which said fish lureis dis1: layed, obviously said"passageway has a transparent wall through which the fish-lure is visible, and I would haveit understood that my invention broadly comprises means i'or supporting an artificial fish-lure and means i for demonstrating the operation of said'fish-lure.

What I claim is 1. In fish-lure demonstrating apparatus, a liquid-conducting display-passageway having a transparent wall,a suitably supported artificial fish-lure arranged in saidpassageayon displayand visible through said wall, and means for effecting a circulation of liquid endwise through saidpa'ssageway.

In demonstrating apparatus, a liquidconducting passageway*ha'ving a transparent wall, means for supporting a fish-lure to be arranged in said passageway for display, a rapid movement and means for effecting of liquid through said passageway.

In demonstrating apparatus, a liquid conducting passageway having a transparent wall, and an artificial fish-lure arranged in said passageway and visible through said wall, and means for effecting a rapid movement of liquid endwise through said passageway, the fish-lure comprising a suitably supported body having a tail-strip extending from the body in the direction of the dis charging end of said passageway.

at. In demonstrating apparatus, a liquidconducting passageway having a transparent wall, an artificial fish-lure arranged in and longitudinally of said passageway and visible through said wall, and means for effecting a circulation of liquid endwise through said passageway, the fish-lure comprising a body having an axle extending from the body in the direction of the liquid receiving end of said passageway and supported at its outer end, and a blade loosely mounted on said axle between the point at which the axle is supported and said body, said blade facing laterally and in the direction of said end of said passageway.

55. In demonstrating apparatus, a liquidconducting passageway having a transparent wall, an artificial fish-lure arranged in said passageway, and means for creating a circulation of liquid endwise through said passageway, the fish-lure comprising a body having a tail-strip extending from the body in the direction of the discharging end of said passageway, said body also having an axle extending from the body in the opposite direction and supported at its outer end, and a blade loosely mounted on said axle between the point at which the axle is supported and said body, the last-mentioned said blade facing in and laterally. apparatus, a subdirection 6. In ClGIhOllStl'atlIlg' stantially horizontal liquid-conducting passagewayhaving a transparent wall, means for supportinga fish-lure to be arranged in'said passageway for display, and means for effecting a circulation of liquid through said passageway.

7. In demonstrating apparatus, a substantially horizontal liquid-conducting pas- 'outlet of the pump at its other end with the inlet of the pump.

8. In demonstrating apparatus, a transparent tube, means for supporting a fishlure in position to'be arranged in said tube for display, and means -for creating'a ciroulation' ofliquid throughsaid tube. 1

9. In demonstrating apparatus, a pump, a transparent-tube arranged substantially horizontally above the pump, and means for supporting a fish-lure to be arranged in said tube for display, said tube being in communication at one end with the outlet of the pump and at its other end with the inlet of the pump.

10. In demonstrating apparatus, a pump, a transparent tube which is in communication at one end with the outlet of the pump and at its other end with the inlet of the pump, and a member arranged centrallyof the first-mentioned end 01'? the tube for supporting a fish-lure to be acted upon by liquid flowing through said tube from the outlet of the pump to the inlet of the pump during the operation of the pump, said tube being supplied with transparent liquid.

11. In demonstrating apparatus, a substantially horizontal transparent tube, a supporting member for an artificial fishlure, said fish-lure-supporting member being arranged centrally of one end-portion and extending exteriorly of said tube, and means for elfecting a rapid movement of liquid endwise through the tube in the diregtion of the opposite end-portion of the tu e.

12. In demonstrating apparatus, the combination, with a substantially horizontal transparent tube, of two standards embracing and supporting opposite ends respectively of said tube, and a fish-lure supported from one of said standards and arranged in said tube for display, said standards being connected together above said tube by a handle-forming web.

13. In demonstrating apparatus, a substantially horizontal transparent tube, two standards embracing and supporting opposite ends respectively of said tube, means for supporting an artificial fish-lure to be arranged in said tube for display, said fishlure-supporting means comprising a substantially horizontal rod extending into and arranged centrally of one end of said tube and supported from the adjacent standard, and means for eiiecting a rapid movement of liquid through said tube from said end of the tube in the direction of the opposite end of the tube.

M. In demonstrating apparatus, a sub. stantially horizontal transparent tube, two standards embracing and supporting opposite ends respectively of said tube, and means for supporting an artificial fish-lure to be arranged in said tube, each standard being provided interiorly with a passage way, the passageway in one of the-standards constituting the outlet of a pump and communicating with said tube at one end of the tube, and the passageway in the other of the standards constituting the inlet of the pump and being in communication with standards embracin and su aortin 0 3osite ends respectively of said tube, one standard being provided with an aperture ar ranged in line endwise with and larger diametrically than said tube, a head closing said aperture and removably secured to said standard and provided centrally with a rod extending into the ad acent end-portion of said tube and adapted to support at its inner end a fish-lure, and means for effecting a circulation of liquid through said tube.

In testimony whereof, I sign the foregoing specification, in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. FOSS.

Witnesses B. C. BROWN, EMIL W. KRYz.

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